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Bijection

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A bijection is a function that is both

In other words, both injective and surjective.

The concept is frequently used to defined equivalence between mathematical structures:

If there is a bijection $$f:X\rightarrow Y$$ between two set, we say that they have the same cardinality: $$|X|=|Y|.$$